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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-04-24

The Virginia debt commission met IN
secret session 40 the Capitol yesterday al
l2 O'Clock. Present LieutenantGoV
ernOr Massey, Senator j y Stubs. Dele
gates II II. Downing,J II. H. Fiegatand
j. II Darst
Their session lasted about two hours.
which were spent in organizing and cN-
aiming The debt statement that is 10 be
submitted TO the representative of the
bondhOlders
Nothing of Importance can be done un-
til Sir Edward Thornton arrives, which
will probably be Monday or Tuesday
The other Virginia members will be
present at the next meeting
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-04-24

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

The lining thief is, believe, positively tht
latest exploiter in the realm Of crime Thi.
Is the man who trades hats with you In the
barber shop, in the sleeper car, and outside
,he hotel dining room. The mere act Of ex.
change is trick old enough in ITSELF but
with the oldest adroitness Of the lining thief
it becomes very tantalizing sort Of mean.
ness The lining thief carries about him one
Or more Innings which he has pulled out Of
Did and rusty hats, and by clever juggle
slips them, as occasion offers, into the prop
erty Of others, who have no means Of identity
80 sure as the look Of the inside In this way,
though you may seem to think you
know your hat by it's general appearance
Or color, you are nonplused by the changed
character Of the lining. hear Of the recent
detection Of this sort Of thievery on sleeping
ear by passenger who saw the legerdemain
connected with it through clumsy perform
ance. Syracuse Standard
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
Shortening the Coronation Chair.

We shall not know how much harm has
been done to Westminster abbey in prepar-
ing it for the royal thanksgiving service
until the scaffolds have been removed. More
care, it is believed has been taken than on
previous occasions, but one wanton piece Of
mischief has certainly been committed. We
shall scarcely be believed when we say that
the coronation chair, perhaps to most English
men the most precious of all the precious relics
in the abbey, was handed over to some bar
barian to be smartened up, and he has daubed
it the orthodox Wardour street brown and
vanished it'll Yet this is true. The chair
made 600 years ago to contain the
stone which even then had long story
behind it, has suffered much from hard
usuage and from the hands Of the mis-
chievous. But not even in the perilous time
when GeorgeIV was crowned was ii attempt
ed to take away the chairs age and make q
new thing of it. Now, when wepride ourselves
on knowing more about old art work than
our fathers did, this has been done, and the
throne of six and twenty monarchs has been
vulgarized into the semblance of the hall
chair Of Cockney Gothic villa.-The Athe-
nHum
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
AT VICKSBURG-1SS7.

the dead-soldiers that have stacked their
arms and surrendered to the final conqueror.
One of the principal features of Vicksburg is
this vast cemetery. The rough and ragged
hills which form part of the bank of the
Father of Waters have been fashioned into
place of profound beauty and impressive
ness. Forty-seven acres are inclOSed, in the
improvement of which the government has
expended more than 100000. Ten men,
under charge of superintendent private
soldier from Ohio-are constantly EN-
played in keeping the grounds in order. On
the most elevated point stands the monument,
or what is left of it, originally erected on the
spot where Grant and Pemlerton arranged
for the surrender of the city after the long
and terrible siege. Relic hunters had so
defaced it by chipping off pieces that to save
it from utter destruction it was removed to
the cemetery and cannon substituted. Be.
low us sweeps the majestic river, but since
the siege it avoids the town and strikes the
bluff mile or so below the old landing. The
former bed of the river is now a lake, and
where the great gunboats lay and belched
fire and destruction into the devoted city is
now bank of sand covered with growth of
coarse grasses and underbrush. All around
the city are signs of combat.
Such war, such waste, such fiery tracks of dearth
Nature, however, is busy repairing the raw
ages of man. With the magic use of sun.
shine and rain she is smoothing the earth
works and filling up the rifle pits.
In this Vicksburg city of silence, with
more inhabitants than in the living city,
there are 12,71O g,aves marked with head
stones which bear numbers only, the occu-
pants being unknown. The bones of these
unidentified sleepers were gathered from
battlefields, near and remote, brought here
by contract. A price was given for each,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
what sportinp Men Care For.

Fully one-fourth of the people who visit the
races nowadays do SO merely to avail them
selves of the betting privileges afforded on
the course and not because they care conti-
mental for the sport Of racing as a recreation.
Hundreds of men never go fifty feet from the
betting paddock during the afternoon They
care only for the result and are utterly indif-
ferent to the niceties of the struggle. II they
win they are eager to get their money as soon
as possible in order that they may play it
again in the next race. They are the men
who are the most eager for the latest stable
tips and information. Though they consider
themselves sporting men par excellence they
have little claim to the title, but are gam
blers pure and simple.-New York Sun.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
AROUND BLANCO BAY.
A List of the Useful Plants Which Grow
in That Region.

A List of the Useful Plants Which Grow
in That Region.
Between many plants we found in the vi
cinity of Blanco bay l will mention a few
which, ON account of usefulness, are already,
and Will be still more, of very great i'm
portance. Between these plants the first
place belongs to the wild date or datilillo tree
yucca ScottiD, tall tree, occasionally forty
and fifty feet high
Datilillo looks sometimes like a palmetto,
but has narrow long and very sharp leaves.
The stem is very fibrous, and excellent from
which to prepare paper, cordage, mating,
etc. The London Telegraph is printed on the
paper manufactured out of the fiber of lower
California wild date 1t grows in abundance
south of San Quentin and Rosario valleys.
Candlewood tree fuguiera gigantea), by
the MeXicans called cirio, is very remark
able plant 1t presents very singular APP
pearance in a desert, sometimes growing
straight like an arrow, sometimes inclined in
all possible positions, or bent in most fantas.
tic FORMS The leaves are very small the
bark white and it is covered with long twigs.
The stem contains pith, which is eaten by cat.
tie. In the hollow trunks of this remarkable
plant swarms Of wild bees find their abode
Here / must remark that the bees were un.
known before on the peninsula. They came
from upper California, and now they are
everywhere, honey being used by the Mexi
cans instead of sugar for tea or coffee The
candlewood tree is also very fbrous and car
be used in the same manner as datilillo.
The third remarkable plant is maguey OIL
agave shawii 1t belongs to the family Of
the century plants, and it grows everywhere
from San Diego to San Lucas. 1t forms a
beautiful object in the desert, with its dark
green leaves and splendid yellow flowers II
has also fibrous qualities; besides, out of this
plant is prepared the celebrated Mexican
beverage-mescal.
Though the country in the vicinity of
Blanco bay is very rich in fora, yet there is
perfect absence of animal life, and per-
feet silence reigns there supreme. The only
living creature that seems to thrive there is
the trap door spider, occasionally though
wrongfully called tarantula. This trap door
spider, cteniza California, is only half as
large as the tarantula, but belongs to the same
family of mygalide. 1t inhabits the under
ground holes or tubes, provided with very
ingeniously constructed trap doors. The
nests found near Blanco bay were about a
half dozen in number, and dug on level
ground, but as could see all of these tubes
were abandoned.-Co San Francisco Chron.
ic1a
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
For a Months Jaunt.

"Give me some idea Of the outfit required
Tor months jaunt in the mountains or by
tho seashorep
"Well, in the first place, you would want O
1annel shirt-a good one-which would cost
30. Then, perhaps, if you wore knickerbock
BIS, could sell you pair of boots or pail
Of canvas shoes The first would cost 81 Del
pair and the last 81. A polo cap, at 81
would complete the wearable outfit; of course
taking into consideration that you had
clothes. A big canvas tent can be purchased
for SIS and will stand the wear and tear OF
two or three seasons. Then you would want
n case you were going to the mountains, a
canoe. Medium sized ones can be bought
cheap, some selling as low as SO. Fishing
tackle, guns, shade umbrellas and hammoclIf
come all prices. In hammoclZs many novel.
ties are shown. Here is one which can be
carried easily in one side Of medium sized
hand bag. 1t is very compact and folds up
like an umbrella. In the past hammocks
caused complaint, owing to their bulk. Give
me $50, and with that sum l would guarantee
10 have glorious m onth's fun. "--Brooklyr
Eagle
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
Rhode Islands Peculiarities.

She is the only state that has no provision
in her constitution for calling constitutional
convention.
She is the only state that requires more
than majority of votes to ratify amend
ments to the constitution.
She is the only state whose constitution
draws a distinction between native and
naturalized citizens.
She is the only state whose legislatures vote
by secret ballot.
She is the only state that requires the gov
ernor to share the pardoning power with the
senate
She is the only state that requires voters to
register one year in order to vote the next.
She is the only state that requires majority
vote to elect all officers.
She is the only state that requires prop
erty qualification of voters-Boston Globe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
Building in Omaha.

Fred. Ames, of Boston, one of the sons of
Cakes Ames, Is putting up six story brick
building which will cost $1SO,OO0. The First
National bank building is seven story gran
tie stone and brick building which cost $780,
900, and just opposite this is the Merchants
National bank of eight stories, which is to be
made of brown stone, and which will cost
100000 The Paxton block will cost $780,
600, and the Chamber of Commerce on the
opposite corner is a fine six story building
about completed. Just above this an exca-
walton has been made by the New York Life
Insurance for a ten story business block
which is to cost S700,0O0 and across the
street is to be the new city hall and the new
building Of The Omaha Bee, each of which
will cost about $500, 900.
The Omaha Bee building will be erected by
Editor Rosewater. Rosewater is an ex-
ample of young men who have come west and
made fortunes. Coming from Sandusky, O.,
he was telegraph operator in the war de-
partment during the war and was sent west
about that time as superintendent of the
Western Union telegraph lines here 1t was
at this time that he bought one-half of the lot
upon which he proposes to erect his $500, 900
building, paying 5000 for what is now worth
$4,000. After being in Omaha some time
Rosewater, who is a bright fellow, who thinks
for himself, dropped into politics and was
elected to the legislature. He was against the
ring influence of the town, and he needed
paper to bolster up his views. With this idea
he started The Bee, intending to let it
drop as soon as the campaign was over. He
saw, however, that there was good opening
for newspaper, and he has kept at it until
he has now one of the most valuable news
paper properties in Omaha. He runs morn
ing and evening edition and makes money
He lives well and is man of influence as
well as of means In addition to this the city
has three other dailies, and furnishes its
citizens with as good character of literary
matter as you will find in the country
Western Letter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
:, tne whole Hideous Catalogue

of diseases, there were none which, previous
TO the discovery of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, offered more formidable resistance to
the old fashioned modes oftreatment than the
group of malad'es which, under the collective
nams of tAalarial disease, afflicted entire
communities that suffered hopelessly. Chills
and fever, dumb ague, ague cake and bilious
remittent were once regarded as well nigh in
durable Now it rejoices the hearts fthou-
sands who reside in districts periodically
subject to the visitation of malaria, TO feel
certain that in the Bitters they possess a Ger
tain defence againstthe scourge, a sure means
of expelling its poison from the system. To
the settler in the far West, the new emigrant
thither, and to travellers and tourists by land
and sea, the possession of this pleasant safe
guard is guaranty of safety from diseases
which they might vainly seek from any other
source.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
A EonkseIler,s Trick.

In New York they tell tales of bookseller
who buys books at auction here in the spring,
takes them with him to Paris in trunk in
the summer, ships them bach 70 his store in
the fall in cases that are opened in the pres
ence Of nabbergasted book men. He shows
a Paris invoice for them. Sometimes it Is
the library of u marquis, sometimes the col
lection of a cousin to descendant Of COVER.
ness of queens children. The trick is said
70 pay well; doubtless it does, Judging by
librettos that fetch from s15 to $50 for hav-
ing been in the Tuileries library {" as witness
the binding with its large, gilded initial M,
but these things are manufactured by whole
sale in the Boulevard Saint-M Michel. New
York Times.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
VIEW FROM vICKsBURG CEMETERY.

and negroes secured the country for skele-
tons. 1t is claimed that old negro grave
yards were robbed and their contents brought
to this place of beauty, and laid side by side
with the brave boys Of the northland who
died in the heat and dust, in the cold and
rain, with wounds and with fever, and so far
away from home. Peace and pity for the
soldier, but what of the mercenary who for
his pieces Of silver practiced such a. wicked
imposition? or the stones standing at the
head of each grave only 1895 contain inscrip-
lions, which include name, company and
regiment, and in case of officers the rank
At Chalmette cemetery, just below New
Orleans, there are 1881 graves, with 1914
unknown occupants. The hospitals con-
tributed full share to the known dead Of
Chalmette. This cemetery covers fifteen and
a half acres and is part of the site of the
battlefield on which Jackson repulsed Pack
enham's men and saved New Orleans during
the war of 1S12-14, which event is duly COM
memorated on the Sth of January, every
year, by the people of the Crescent City. The
cemetery wall crosses the line of earthworks
thrown up by the Americans, and on which
the cotton bales were placed to give additional
protection from the bullets of the invaders.
The location is greatly unlike that at Vicks-
burg; here the ground is level as floor, with
the surface Of the river above, the water kept
from submerging it and the surrounding
country and city only by a mere wall of
earth; there the white headstones are scat
tered over hills high above the swelling
foods; here the eye sweeps up and down long
rows, twenty-four in number, each a half
mile in Ianoth i'm all twelve miles of graves.
in both shell roads and walks, and flower
beds and evergreens artistically arranged.
The roses and trees are fragrant and the
heavy foliage droops as if in everlasting sor-
row; the thick leaved ambrosial live oaks,
the heavy trailing creepers of the vines, the
magnolias and myrtles, the light swaying
banners of the moss, all bending low as if in
funeral mourning. Near by the Chalmette
cemetery is the tall shaft built in 1885 by con-
gress in honor of Jackson's victory 1t shows
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
THE NATIONS DEAD.
SOLDIERS WHO Persisted THAT
THEIR COUNTRY MIGHT LIVE.

Something About the Soldiers Cemeteries
at Vicisburg, New Orleans and Other
Points-List of National Cemeteries.
The Blue and the Gray.
Special Correspondence
VIcKsBURG, Aug. 80.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread;
And glory guards with jealous round
The bivouac of the dead.
This verse from Confederate generals
poem is cast in bronze and set up with other
lines of similar sentiment in eighty-one ma
honal cemeteries, where sleep those who died
that under God, government of the people,
by the people and for the people might not
perish from the EARTH" The largest cemetery
maintained by the government is here at the
chief city of the bayou state. There are
1906 headstones in this great assembly of
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
The Kind He Wanted.

"Mr. Doppenheimer, want TO introduce a
burglar alarm into your house twill indi-
cate at which door or window
II dom want none Of dose tings dom
bodder me init burglars"
"Once you have tried them, Mr. Doppen-
heimer"-
"Look here, meesfer II you wash got a
eondFiyance what keeps mine wife from goin'
1ru mine pockets when wash asleep, den l
.alks NIT you leedle bit. "-lIaTpcr's Bazaar.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
BootbIacks and Lilies.

One of the principal articles Of traffic at
Lake Minnetonka about this season is that
beautiful species Of the white water lily
which grows in such profusion there, and &
said to resemble the famous lotus blossom Of
the Nile. These lilies are not vended by
pretty country girls with blushing faces and
twinkling bare feet, snch as the story books
tell Of, but by the bootblacks. "Sbine yer
shoes and water lilies" these arabs will shout,
and it looks strangely inconsistent when
with their grimy little paws they hand out
the immaculate blossoms. Pioneer Press.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15
Chinese Hospitality.

The Chinese are proverbially hospitable
during their festival seasons-sometimes to
the outside barbarians embarrassingy So.
The visitor is invariably pressed with variouI
CONNECTIONS, some of these colorless and fortu-
nately mostly tasteless, but of general slimi-
ness of construction; others many tinted and
wormlike. that my guide assured me were
composed of the candied entrails of rats
can only say the form Of these latter deli
cacies bore out the idea.-San Francisco Cor.
Boston Transcript.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

1t will be novel sight TO see an American
born boy sitting as a peer in the English
house of lords But the direct living de-
scendant in the oldest son line Of the English
house Of Fairfax is the son Of u Virginia
farmer. The other day be was driving y
mule team in a Loud0un county bayfield,
Chicago Times.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

Henry Labouchere thus criticises Holman
Hunts picture, "The Awakened Conscience:
ain plain language, should say Of this pict-
ure that IL is the art Of the nursery, the color
Of the jam pot, and the sentiment Of the Sal.
vntion Army
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

The Princess Of Wales Is reported in
poor health, the result of the sad fate Of
her favorite sister, the Duchess OF Gum
berland, who recently became insane.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

Virginia has the largest number of ceme-
teries-fourteen. Virginia, Tennessee and
Mississippi, in their order, were The battle
states of the struggle. The dead of the civil
war are not all gathered in national cene-
teries-none but those of the vctors There
are many other graves in the south which
enfold soldiers as valorous as those from the
north.
Sad chance of war! Now, destitute of aid,
Falls undistin guishd by the victor's spade.
No stone or epitaph marks their last resting
place. They too bore themselves with I'M
daunted courage, nerved to heroic endurance,
and following the right as God gave them to
see the right No people ever suffered a
greater penalty for drawing the sword. They
were loyal and devoted to their cause, and
the spots of arth-home-they died battling
for, and the soil that drank up their blood is
where they rest.
Scatter bright roses DER the grave
OF every soldier, proud and brave,
Who died in gray or blue;
Who fell beneath the stripes and stars,
Or died where waved Confederate bars,
To flag and country true.
On either side of freedoms line
Bring brightest flowers to deck each shrine.
We ask not now what flag they bore;
Scan not the uniform they wore
On each supreme occasion.
We know they bravely fought and fell
To crush, withstand, resist or quell
Rebellion or invasion,
And threw their lives into the fray
In frock of blue or blouse of gray
Nature decorates the graves of the undis.
covered dead, scattering wild flowers with
gentle hand alike upon the resting places of
both the victors and the vanquished
In 1867 the women Of Columbus, Miss, in
augurated the custom of decorating the
graves of their own as well as those of the
northern soldier dead, an event which called
forth the poem of "The Blue and the Gray"
Sadly, but not with upbralding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of years that are fading
No drawer battle was won
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue;
Under the garlands, the Gray,
No more shall the war cry sever
Or the winding rivers be red;
They Danish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves of our dead.
Under the sod and dew;
Waiting the judgment day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
MOSES FOLSOM.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

the eighty-one national cemeteries are under
charge of superintendents A list of these
cemeteries, with the number of interments,
may be of interest 1t is alpha .etically as
follows.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-15

II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's eye water. Druggists.